PAP is necessary every three years: expert us panel
new YORK (Reuters Health) – A panel of experts in health United States concluded that women should do the Pap smear or Pap every three years to detect early cervical cancer and just starting at the 21 years, even if they are already sexually active. The Declaration of the Group operation of Preventive services ( USPSTF for its acronym in English) coincides with the guides of three Oncology scientific societies of the country presented the same day. At age 30, women should be eligible for the every five years if you choose to combine the Pap testing with the analysis of human papillomavirus (HPV) virus. “Importantly the emphatic make recommendation, the “” analysis”, said Dr. Virginia Moyer, who chairs the USPSTF and is the Baylor School of medicine and the Hospital pediatrician of Children of Texas in Houston. The recommendation for the Pap every three or five years arises from the evidence that the cervical cancer is of relatively slow growth so that the expert it was considered unlikely that a woman develops cancer Advanced in a few years after a negative result. “Women who develop cervical cancer and “ die for this cause are that no controls are made of “ routine”, said Moyer. “The problem is not that women not be performed a control in a couple of years”, added. The new recommendations of the USPSTF arise...
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